Mean Street host Evan Newmark explains why Republican Texas governor Rick Perry might be an attractive candidate among the group running for president on the GOP side. Photo: REUTERS/Scott Audette

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go ... finally ... to my question today ... County St Erian's are there in Japan ... hundred twenty million people in Japan ... and forty seven thousand of them ... are either one hundred years of age or older ... now ... the deal you might say it's only forty seven thousand people took to put this in this context ... that number forty seven thousand is up almost ten percent year over year ... and it's up four fold from a dozen years ago ... what is this mean for us to be here in America ... while here in America we need to have an aging population ... right now we have only about seventy five thousand people United States than a hundred years or older but that number will grow edible grown Geometric lead going forward ... and what that means is really ... the math takes over ... when namaste takes over ... that means taking the and ... Sosa Security ... and Medicare as currently configured ... are basically well on the road to bankruptcy ... that's why Rick Perry and his reason brouhaha ... over so Security and whether it's a Ponzi scheme or whether it's not a Ponzi scheme ... it said could trigger Rick Perry's bring nice this up ... and it's good because it's forcing us as Americans ... to face the map ... and ... let's face it the man is not good when the math works right now ... is that one added every ... correct me ... years ago was so scary that started in took sixteen workers to pay for every so Security participant ... nowadays it's a story workers in the system paying for one ... who is getting worse that the benefits ... in the future that will go down to as low as two to one ... believe it or not the man from Medicare is even worse ... I wanna thank Rick Perry although I might not agree with much of what he says it early spree in the south and